Photograph of students at Fairmont Elementary School in Denver, Colorado during a project on the story of rubber. Pictured are four unidentified students sitting at desks working with various forms of rubber. Benind them two other students hang a...

Men pose with a rubber belt, probably a part for a car, at Gates Rubber Company plant in Denver, Colorado. A worker wears a pants suit and a cap and holds a rubber belt manufactured at Gates. A man with a hat, suit and tie stands in front of a car...

View of the Dunlop Tire and Rubber Company and the E. A. Stephens & Company Incorporated at 1833 Wazee Street in downtown Denver, Colorado. Signs on the building read: "E. A. Stephens & Co. Inc. Raw Furs & Wool 1833 Wazee St. This Building" and "A...

Shows the store front of the International Rubber Sales Company located at 1047 Broadway in Denver, Colorado, before it became Gates Rubber Company. Signs in the windows read: "Put on International Rubber Half-Soles Saves you Half the Cost", "Make...

Flood debris is piled against the Mississippi Street bridge across the South Platte River, in Denver, Colorado. Men survey the damage, cranes are overhead; the Gates Rubber Company factory is in the background. Sign reads: "Gates Rubber Co."

Men stand beside the open hood of a car and look at a rubber belt, probably a car engine part manufactured at the Gates Rubber Company in Denver, Colorado. A workman wears a mechanic's pants suit; probably a customer wears a suit, tie and hat.

View of a billboard in Denver, Colorado. The billboard has a frame that consists of two oversized newel posts with newel caps, and a cornice across the top. Electric lights are mounted on top of the billboard. The billboard reads: "Back of...

View west from dome of State Capitol Building over Civic Center, Denver, Colorado, shows the cruciform plan located between West Fourteenth Avenue and West Colfax. Landmarks include: Pioneer Monument, the Andrew Carnegie funded 1909 Denver Public...

Women from Gates Rubber Company tend to a war garden plot. Some women wear coveralls with "Gates half-50lb tire" printed on the back. Other women wear dresses and loose blouses while they harvest, hoe, and dig in the garden. The Gates Rubber...

View of the South Platte River and flood damage at West Mississippi Avenue and Santa Fe Drive in Denver, Colorado; shows debris, workers, a crane, a fuel tank, a factory, water tower, and signs: "Gates Rubber Company," "Gulf," and "Jeff's Burgers."

Gates Rubber Company's "Service Truck No. 1" is parked in front of a Gate's service station at 1569 Broadway in Denver, Colorado. A sign above the station front door reads: "Gates Half Sole Tires, The International Rubber Co." Sign on window next...

View of the first building used by the Gates Rubber Company at 10th (Tenth) Avenue and Acoma Street in the Golden Triangle neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Pieces of lumber are stacked against the one-story brick building.